Germany will "stand together" with the United States to overcome global challenges from the coronavirus pandemic to global warming, Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Monday after Joe Biden was elected America's next president.
While politicians in Germany could not yet fully comment on the US vote, which was still being counted as of Wednesday evening, many were concerned about what they saw as an "attack" on democracy.
Vandals have damaged more than 70 artworks and artifacts at some of Berlin's most renowned museums, police said Wednesday, in a targeted attack kept quiet by authorities for more than two weeks.
Back in 2016, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel greeted Donald Trump's victory with an extraordinary warning: that she would work with the US president on the condition that he respect democratic values. Things did not improve from there.
As the colder months approach, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country's 16 state premieres are meeting to discuss new measures to stem the spread of the virus indoors. Here are their main proposals.
Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday there could be no further relaxation of coronavirus restrictions
while Germany grapples with a surge in new infections.
Germany on Friday added all of Spain, excluding the Canary Islands, to its list of high-risk coronavirus areas, the health ministry said, in a major blow to top tourist destinations like Mallorca.
Germany will make coronavirus tests mandatory for travellers returning from risk areas, Health Minister Jens Spahn said Monday, as fears rise that summer travel could spark a new surge in infections.
Frankfurt Airport opened a walk-in
testing centre on Monday where passengers can pay to take a coronavirus test
and get their results within hours, in a bid to reassure anxious travellers as
the summer holidays kick off.
After a long dispute over how to deal with the corona crisis, Germany’s federal and state governments came together on Wednesday to agree on a uniform approach in important areas.
Major events are to remain banned until at least the end of October in Germany, according to a draft agreement ahead of a meeting with the states and Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Investigators in Germany authorities said on Thursday they presumed Madeleine McCann was dead rather than missing as they investigate whether a Germany sex o was responsible for the disappearance of the British girl 13 years ago.
Coronavirus-stricken German airline
group Lufthansa has agreed in principle a nine-billion-euro
rescue deal with Berlin that would see the government climb aboard as a shareholder, DPA reported on Monday.
The German government unveiled a €10 billion economic package on Thursday to pay for additional unemployment benefits and new tax cuts to help businesses affected by the coronavirus.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is
"greatly concerned" that virus-fighting discipline among the German public may ebb as the country takes its first steps out of a month-long lockdown, she said at a telephone conference on Monday.
The Bundestag on Wednesday passed an aid package totalling almost €1.1 trillion, as experts said they were still unable to tell if measures to stop the coronavirus spread in Germany were working.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet on Monday agreed an unprecedented package of support to Europe's biggest economy worth hundreds of billions of euros to cushion the impact of measures to contain the novel coronavirus.
